Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-05-14

and the ingenuity of devils have con-
triVed to overlay and decorate the
simple Republican structure they
hewed out Of the primal forests of
nature and built upon the rocks OF
Liberty, (Cheers.)
"If it be not the mission of the Demo-
cratic party to preserve in the new
something of the spirit Of the old zap.
plause), to combine tradition with
movement and to tighten the high
ways of progress with brands snatcled
from the fire kindled by those who
launched the ark Uf the Union aud
made the covenant OF States (cheers), l.,
then there is no future for lis but a
repetition Of histories, which had bet
ter never been. | have followed the
morning star of Democracy from the
noon-day Of secession through the
darkest hours of the midnight of re-
construction, and, with the dawn of
peace and reason, have seen it shine
over a reunited people (applause) as
bright and clear as the Star of Beth
lehem, which presaged the coming
of Christ; and as truly as | believe
that God reigns and orders all things
for good, do believe that this morn
ing star of Democracy, which has re-
turned to its meridian and shines
once more above the White House at
Washington, presages the final tri-
umph of freedom and the reign forever
and aye of the peoples simple majes-
ty. prolonged applause.) 1t is be-
cause [ believe this that am unwil-
ling to yield one inch Of the peoples
ground to the encroachments of inno-
vation, and hold these innovations
more dangerous when they come clad
in the raiment and flying the flag of
q spurious Democracy. (Cheers.) /
had rather meet fifty enemies on the
open plain in honest fight than one
single enemy disguised as friend.
(Agplause.)
"Let me urge upon this convention
then, the reassertion of each of the
old time-honored doctrines that has
any bearing upon the present state of
public affairs; the needful limitations
of the Federal power; the unimpaired
tights of the States; the money of the
Constitution, expressed in gold and
silver, and paper and convert
able into coin upon demand
the free education of the people
at home; no sumptuary laws;
no political secret societies; no more
revenue than the Government, econ
omically administered, can spend,
and tariff laid opon the luxuries of
life exclusively for public purposes.
(Cheers.) These, ow-Democrats,
are cardinal and automatic Demo-
cratic truths, and no Democrat can
miss his way as long as he sticks to
them with all his heart. Return to
the trenches, / entreat you, and hav-
ing laid aside your store clothes and
put on your home-spun, go to work
to substantiate them as embodied by
the good men and true selected by
you to bear them on to victory.
{ prolonged cheers.)"
THE PLATFORM.
Declaration of Principles for the
Guidance of the Kentucky Democ-
racy.
While the committee appointed to
escort Gen. Buckner to the stake was
absent from the hall in the discharge
of its duty, Chairman Carlisle called
upon EX-Lieutenant Governor Can
trill for the report of the Committee
on Resolutions. That gentleman
answered promptly, and read the
following articles:
THE PLATFORM.
"We declare our confidence in the
integrity, and conscientious devotion
to duty, of President Grover Cleve-
land, and congratulate the country
and the party upon the accession of a
Democratic Administration national
economic and clean; and we particu.
larly applaud the President for the
fidelity and courage with which he
has protected the Treasury from pill
lage by his exercise of the veto
power.
We favor honest civil service re-
form; by which we mean the en-
forcement of the faithful performance
by persons appoited to office of all
public duties entrusted to them, and
to this end, as well as to the main
tenance of the spirit ofour representa-.
tive form of government, wedemand
the strictest measure of persona
and party responsibility, and are op
posed to the substitution, in room 0
this, of life tenure, a civil pension
list, and all other appendages of bu
reaueraticsystem foreign to thegeniui
of our institutions and people.
We declare the honest money o
the Constitution good enough for tn
people as expressed in gold and silve
and paper convertible into coin OF
demand.
We sympathize most earnestl,
with the people of Ireland in thei
struggle for local self-government
and we unite with the friends @
liberal progress in all parts of tn
world in denouncing the coerciv
measures now pending in the Britisl
Parliament as mOnstrous Grim
against a brave, generous and long
suffering people, an obstruction :
human freedom, abhorrent to tn
spirit of liberty in every land.
We view with alarm the growinI
tendency among certain classes Q
citizens to seek the aid and bount.